Flounderling
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Flounderling is a noun meaning A small or young flounder.
Meaning
A small or young flounder.
Example Sentences
On such an one I came All inadvertently, Splashing the shallows Where Atlantic ebb Was making bare The flats, As when one Wading Sets unguarded step Upon a lurking Flounderling.
At first flounderlings are thin-bodied but typically fishlike in other respects. Then suddenly striking anatomical changes take place, and the creature's behavior becomes fixed for an essentially two-dimensional way of life.
Word Forms
- flounderlings
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include fishling, flounderer, frogling, fingerling, grassling, flounder.
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